Include the title of your book(underlined) somewhere in your response.

Use printing, cursive or typing that is legible to all readers

First Impression:Do you like how the book began? Explain why or why not. Did you get "hooked" right away?
Explain why or why not. What prediction(s) can you make about events,
characters, or ideas that might be part of the rest of the book? What
text evidence do you have for your prediction(s)? Use specific examples
or quotations from the book to support your thinking.

Character Sketch:Choose
one important character from your book. What does that character do or
say in the book that reveals what kind of a person he or she is? Focus
on character traits rather than physical appearance. Support your
thinking with examples or quotations from the book. Do you like that
character? Tell why or why not.

Connection:Explain
how a passage in your book triggered either a text-to-text,
text-to-self, or text-to-world connection. Be sure to fully explain
your connection so readers will understand how you made it. Also
explain how this connection helped you better understand or appreciate
the book.

Image:
Find a passage (a few sentences or a paragraph) in your book that
really enabled you to see, hear, smell, taste or feel something. Quote
the passage. Copy carefully and use quotation marks. Explain how the
passage fit into the book as a whole. Then tell exactly how you
imagined the scene in your own mind. How did this help you better
understand or appreciate your reading?

Conflict:
Choose a book you have already finished. State what kind of conflict is
central in your book (Man vs. Man, Man vs. Nature, Man vs. Himself, Man
vs. Society, or Man vs. Technology). Support your choice by explaining
the exact nature of the conflict as it occurs in your book. Then tell
how the conflict is resolved.

Setting:
Where is the setting of the novel? How does the author describe the
setting? Use exact words from the book to describe the setting. Can you
picture the place in your mind? Why or why not? Does the story have a
particular mood? What?

Theme:
What is the autor's message in this book? What is the author trying to
communicate to people about life? Is the author's portrayal of life
accurate?

What if I'm Reading Non-Fiction?

If you are writing about non-fiction, one of these types of entries may work for you:First Impression or Connection

If you are reading a biography, autobiography or diary, you could write a Character Sketch

Interest Entry:
Explain how you chose this non-fiction subject. Is it an area of
personal interest? Briefly tell what you already knew about the subject
before you started reading. What interesting, surprising, or important
information did you learn as you read?